Sole Survivors: A Pilot and his Marine Corps Mitchell

When Pearl Harbor was attacked, I was home at the time. It was a Sunday, and we heard it on the radio like everybody else. I was living with my parents and working for American Airlines at LaGuardia Field. We were outfitting planes to go overseas, converting commercial airplanes for use by the military. I had never been in an airplane except commercially, and I had never flown a light plane. I felt that an...